The Importance Of Being Furnished

Author : R. Tripp Evans
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538173964
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Importance of Being Furnished written by R. Tripp Evans and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the fascinating lives of four gay contemporaries, The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home traces the advent of professional interior decoration in America against the backdrop of the homes these men created for themselves.

Author : Douglas Biow
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081229050X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy written by Douglas Biow and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, scholars have vigorously revised Jacob Burckhardt's notion that the free, untrammeled, and essentially modern Western individual emerged in Renaissance Italy. Douglas Biow does not deny the strong cultural and historical constraints that placed limits on identity formation in the early modern period. Still, as he contends in this witty, reflective, and generously illustrated book, the category of the individual was important and highly complex for a variety of men in this particular time and place, for both those who belonged to the elite and those who aspired to be part of it. Biow explores the individual in light of early modern Italy's new patronage systems, educational programs, and work opportunities in the context of an increased investment in professionalization, the changing status of artisans and artists, and shifting attitudes about the ideology of work, fashion, and etiquette. He turns his attention to figures familiar (Benvenuto Cellini, Baldassare Castiglione, Niccolò Machiavelli, Jacopo Tintoretto, Giorgio Vasari) and somewhat less so (the surgeon-physician Leonardo Fioravanti, the metallurgist Vannoccio Biringuccio). One could excel as an individual, he demonstrates, by possessing an indefinable nescio quid, by acquiring, theorizing, and putting into practice a distinct body of professional knowledge, or by displaying the exclusively male adornment of impressively designed facial hair. Focusing on these and other matters, he reveals how we significantly impoverish our understanding of the past if we dismiss the notion of the individual from our narratives of the Italian and the broader European Renaissance.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reports from the Commissioners written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1374 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Independent Offices Appropriation Bill for 1945 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 1374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rachel Finnegan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004404228
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Explorers in the East (1738-1745) written by Rachel Finnegan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In English Explorers in the East (1738-1745). The Travels of Thomas Shaw, Charles Perry and Richard Pococke, Rachel Finnegan examines the influential travel writings of three rival explorers, whose eastern travel books were printed within a decade of each other.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reports from Commissioners written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Leonard Howell Street
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Funeral Law written by Arthur Leonard Howell Street and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Henri Van der Weyde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
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Download or read book The Manufacturer and Builder written by Peter Henri Van der Weyde and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billed in early issues as "a practical journal of industrial progress", this monthly covers a broad range of topics in engineering, manufacturing, mechanics, architecture, building, etc. Later issues say it is "devoted to the advancement and diffusion of practical knowledge."

Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission appointed to visit the Universities of Aberdeen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Report of the Commissioners Appointed by His Majesty William IV., November 23d, 1836 written by Great Britain. Royal Commission appointed to visit the Universities of Aberdeen and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 998 pages
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Download or read book Special Agents Series written by United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: